Sentences with phrase «to cheat emissions tests»
Volkswagen is facing the prospect of numerous legal claims after it emerged last month that it had been cheating emission tests by using software that made its cars appear less polluting than they are.
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The U.S. EPA has accused Volkswagen for using software in diesel vehicles, such as the Golf TDI, that essentially cheats emissions testing
On September 18, the EPA announced that Volkswagen had been employing a «defeat device» to cheat its emission tests on the widely admired 2.0 L four - cylinder TurboDiesel engines deployed in many of its smaller cars.
This follows 2015's high - profile «Dieselgate» exposé in which the company was found to have cheated emissions testing by installing illegal defeat devices in in its EA189 diesel engines from 2009 to 2015.
Volkswagen admitted in late 2015 that it fitted as many as 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with software that could cheat emissions tests.
The scandal originally started when the automaker was found to have used software on nearly 11 million diesel vehicles globally to cheat emissions testing.
The KBA motor transport authority said that only Volkswagen has used the now - infamous type of defeat device to cheat emissions testing, but it will continue investigating other automakers in search of answers to how certain cars emit considerably higher emissions outside of testing conditions.
Volkswagen reached a $ 14.7 billion settlement with 475,000 U.S. owners of diesel vehicles and federal and California regulators in October after admitting to installing secret software in its diesel cars to cheat emissions tests.
But we would learn this «clean diesel» campaign was a fallacy as Volkswagen was found to be using illegal software that allowed their diesel vehicles to cheat emission tests.
Volkswagen has been caught out cheating emissions tests.
A Michigan district court judge determined that the Clean Air Act did not preclude plaintiffs from bringing 53 state law fraudulent concealment and consumer protection claims against General Motors LLC and its suppliers for developing and installing devices on GM diesel trucks to cheat emissions tests.